Dreamweaver Web Design Tips

There are many tips and tricks available for Dreamweaver, here I will mention a couple that have helped me out along the way.

Show Hidden Files in Dreamweaver’s FTP

As many in the field of web design will know, there are often times when you need to see hidden files on your remote server, for example, the .htaccess file. This is actually very easy to do, just click the extra options icon in your “Files” window within Dreamweaver, scroll to View -> Show Hidden Files. Simple as that!

Show Hidden Files on Dreamweaver FTP

Source Format – Revisited

I wrote a blog a while back about setting the default letter case for certain Dreamweaver attributes. I’ve noticed that this doesn’t always work, however I have found a method that will. If you follow the instruction within the previously linked tutorial, when you get to the code format tab click ‘Tag Libraries…‘, you will be greeted with a new window and a list of xHTML/HTML elements. Click whichever element is the parent of the attribute you are trying to change to lower case, for example, if you are trying to change <pre><a onClick…</pre> to <pre><a onclick…</pre>, you would click the ‘a‘ folder. Within that folder you will see a list of all the available attributes for an anchor tag. Find onClick, change the Attribute Case to lowercase, then click OK. This should now solve your problems, just rinse and repeat!

I’ll drop in with some more useful tips next week, leave any comments below!